After losing her sister to a drug overdose, Chief Superintendent Jo Howe isdesperate to tackle the world of drugs that consumes the shadowybackstreets of Brighton. Operation Eradicate is her response, deployingundercover tactics to collapse drug circles while also providing treatmentservices to victims of drug abuse. But not everyone sees this as a positivedevelopment ...

The man behind Respite pharmaceuticals, billionaire Sir Ben Campbell, viewsOperation Eradicate as a threat to his business. His colossal empire relies onburgeoning numbers of addicts who survive on their substitute drugs. Withconnections in the highest levels of government, media and organised crime,Sir Ben unleashes a brutal counterattack on Jo. The question is, how will shesurvive this fierce onslaught?